University of Kansas School of Law honors Joplin graduate Eli Rosenberg

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LAWRENCE, KS (05/25/2012)(readMedia)-- LAWRENCE - The University of Kansas School of Law honored more than 140 graduates at a hooding ceremony May 12. During the ceremony, seven students received awards for distinguishing themselves in scholarship, leadership and service to the law school and the community, including Eli Rosenberg, Joplin, Mo.

Rosenberg received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, which goes to the graduating student selected by the faculty as having made the most significant contribution toward overall legal scholarship. Rosenberg's scholarly Note about the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was published in Volume 59 of the Kansas Law Review. He also served as a note and comment editor on the Law Review and as a member of the Moot Court Council. He mentored lawyering students for four semesters as a teaching assistant in the first-year lawyering program and served as a Shook, Hardy & Bacon Scholar, tutoring and mentoring first-year students – all while maintaining an outstanding grade point average, placing him near the very top of the class. Rosenberg is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rosenberg and a graduate of Joplin High School and the University of Kansas.

Funds for the awards and scholarships are managed by KU Endowment, the independent, nonprofit foundation serving as the official fundraising and fund-management organization for KU. Founded in 1891, KU Endowment was the first foundation of its kind at a U.S. public university.